Biography
Philip Kennedy has worked in the piano industry since 1976, and he has considerable experience in the tuning and repair of many types of piano.
After completing his training, Philip spent seven years as a piano technician for Kennard & Sons in Canterbury, working mainly for domestic clients and for educational establishments. However, since then much of his professional life has been spent preparing pianos for professional concerts and recordings. Philip worked under Farid Showghi at Steinway & Sons, and currently undertakes freelance concert tuning work for Steinway & Sons, London.
He has prepared instruments for numerous BBC TV and radio broadcasts as well as for many solo piano recordings for Nimbus Records, Olympia Compact Discs, EMI and The Divine Art Record Company. Since 1983 he has taught piano technology at the Royal National College for the Blind in Hereford, as well as working as a freelance piano technician, both locally and nationally.
He is a Fellow of the Institute of Musical Instrument Technology (FIMIT), a Member of the Pianoforte Tuners' Association (MPTA) and holds a diploma in piano playing from Trinity College of Music, London (LTCL).
